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Letters Patent No. 77,383. and Apfel 2s, 1868.

IMPEovEn BREAD-GUTTER.

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To ALL WHOM rr MAY 'OONOEEN= Be it known that I, GEORGE lL. JoNEsof Chicopee, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Bread und Cake-Slicer; end I do hereby declaro that'the' following is efull and clearv description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreferenc marked thereon. In the drawings-' Figure 1 is a plan'viewLand Figure 2 an end view of my device.

This invention consists -of a device for-cutting and slicing cake, bread, Src., and is so arranged that a positive saw-motion is given to the knife, so that the-certainty of cutting evenly and easily is produced.

In the drawings, it is seen that the cutting-device'is'arrnngediat 'or near thc middlo'of the trough 4, and tha theknifc Bis guided by an eccentric-guide, C, turning v{1p-from one side of the trough, and crossing above it. A connecting-piece, D, is made between 'the upper end'of the guide vC and the sido of the trough A, beneath it. Upon this vertical piece D are holes for screws, a and b, under which the end lof the knife works. *There are two or more, of these-projecting screws a and b, one,l b, alittle' above the other, for reasons Iwill hereafter explain 'lhe knife is arranged nt or ncnr the haft, so that it is lguided at this point by the slot E in the guidcpieceCi The manner in which I prcfer'to arrange it is by means of'a bolt attached to .the knife, and passed vthrough the slot, andv headed on tho'other sid`c.

I use the projecting screw b to nct as a fulcrum for the knife, when a. d-vice is inserted in thc trough beneath the knife requiring the plane to be elevated. The projecting screw d nets as a'fulcrum for the back of the knife in its ordinary arrangement.

An adjustable gauge for the bread-can be made by placing nfs'trip ofwood, G, immediately in front-vof the i knife. This strip has pins,f, set underneath it, which-fitinto correspond-ing holes in the bottom of the trough.

As the pinsf are not set in the piecc G at equal distances from the side edges, by turning the strip half around and resetting it, a different distance of the edge next to the knife isobtained relatively to the latter.

The advantagc I obtain by this device is that the knife is givenA a-positive motion, nsidc from theregulur one obtained by the operntion of it upon an axis at one end, thus producinga saw-cut, which i's peculiarly reqvuli-I site in cutting fresh bread or coke; and the trough .on each sido .of thcknife' catches the slices.

` New, having described my invention, what 4I claim as new, and rlesirc to secure-by `Letters Putept, is-

1. The combination of the knife B, having its end free, with the eccentric-guide C and projecting plate D, substantially as und for the purpose described.

` 2. In combination with the device above claimed, the reversible gnuge, consisting-of timepiece G and pins f,

arranged as described.

Witnesses:

J B. GARDINER, E. H. Hrnn.

GEO- L. IJONES. 

